Learn more about planting in Straw bales with details about preparing, planting, and the best plants to grow in your straw bale garden.
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I’m Teri, wife and mama to two little ones, ages 2 and 5. After 13 years of homesteading in Oregon, our family recently moved to Northeast Missouri, where we are slowly building an off-grid homestead on our own land. In this space, I’ll share the adventure, along with lots of gardening, knitting, parenting, and radical homemaking fun. You can find me at Homestead Honey.
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Learn more about gardening in raised beds.
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Colleen is a special education teacher (by way of Teach for America) turned stay-at-home mom to three little ones – ages 3, 2, and 1. Her days are filled with laughing and tears, joys and frustrations, chickens and children. Her family of five lives on a .15 acre lot in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona. Through this urban homesteading journey, Colleen hopes to lead her family down the path to a more sustainable, intentional, and fulfilled life. Follow their adventures on their blog Five Little Homesteaders or find them on Facebook and Twitter.
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Are you working towards your homesteading ideas and dreams? What’s stopping you from living the life you love?
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In this article, we discuss 2 tried and true gardening methods: organic gardening, without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers and traditional gardening, or laying the garden out in a large rectangle with rows. Organic gardening methods are not new and in fact they have been used since people started to garden. For centuries,
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We are two crazy in love, good food cooking, old house remodeling, learning to homestead, all while chasing our (soon to be 2) little boys. We are book reading, beer brewing, Subaru driving folks who live halfway around the world from their family in the middle of nowhere trying to learn how to do this thing called life. Our house is always a bit crazy but the table’s always open!Â
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Learn what seeds should you direct sow in your garden, and what seeds should you start indoors or transplant as seedlings.
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We’re bracing for yet another winter storm here in NY. Still, our thoughts are of spring. After a weekend spent harvesting honey, and visiting a commercial maple sugar farm, we are settling in, and preparing for the growing season ahead. If you haven’t got your gardening tools ready for this spring, check out some of
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For most modern homesteaders, we are faced with an unending list of new skills to learn. In days past, these skills were simply passed down through generations: just as naturally as learning to walk or talk. For most of us, choosing to homestead means that we must each reinvent, relearn, and reach out for the
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